New investment fund Mist Ventures launched in Lund
Mistbase founders Michal Stala and Magnus Midholt, who sold their startup to ARM in 2017, announced they have started Mist Ventures. There are already two startups in the portfolio. One is AligND Systems, which is a new startup but that focuses on taking Sol Voltaic’s technology further, after it’s bankruptcy earlier this year. The other […]
Gaming startup Coherence receives capital
Malmö-based startup Coherence is a cloud-based tool platform for game developers. The platform was founded in 2019 by Dino Patti, Peter Björklund and Tadej Gregorcic. The focus is on supporting game creators who develop online casino games and virtual worlds with multi-player features, regardless of the size of the studio. At bravewords.com you can find […]
Introducing Eatie, a holistic restaurant table booking and review platform
Copenhagen-based startup Eatie was founded in 2018 by three entrepreneurs, and its aim is to further digitalise the restaurant industry and provide customers with more advanced technological tools for the best experience. Eatie is known as the restaurants’ IMDb and it has developed a web and mobile app that compares all the reviews of eateries […]
Matsmart launches in Denmark as Motatos
Matsmart, a Sweden-based sustainability-focused e-commerce startup, has announced they will be launching in Denmark. There they will be under a different name: Motatos. Building a different brand is somewhat unusual with an expansion, however Karl Andersson, co-founder says: “Motatos works great with our philosophy that food can still be fantastic even if it’s label accidentally […]
Contractbook Raises €3.5M from Google and byFounders
Contractbook, a legaltech startup that has a platform for end-to-end contract lifecycle management, has announced they raised € 3.5 million from a syndicate led by Gradient Ventures, which is Google’s AI Fund, the Nordic VC-fund byFounders and a group of key angel investors. This is the first time a Danish startup received funding from a […]
StickerApp in €24M deal
Stickerapp.com, a service for ordering the all too famous sticker for laptops, widely used amongst startups, has recently been in a big deal. The startup has over the last years grown a lot – from € 6 million to reportedly over € 12 million in revenue, with a margin of 40%. Now it has been […]
Top tech women celebrated by Inspiring Fifty
During Slush last week the 2019 Inspiring Fifty for the Nordics where announced. The prize is about highlighting 50 technology “trailblazers, innovators and executives that are smashing perceptions of what women can and do”. Inspiring Fifty Nordic is a global initiative, initiated in the Netherlands by Janneke Niessen, and done together with Antler. The awards […]
Fieldly raises €1.5M and appoints new CEO
Malmö-based (previously Helsingborg-based) startup Fieldly works on digitalising project management for construction businesses, and offers both app- and web-based services. Currently Fieldly has over 25 000 registered users, and in one year the company expects to have doubled that figure. The startup has recently raised 1.5 million EUR from the existing owners in order to accelerate […]
Mobile-payment startup Pej receives investment from Schibsted
Pej has developed a service that makes it possible to order and pay on the mobile phone at service places, such at restaurants, arenas and amusement parks. Recently the startup has received 2.5 million EUR, and the media giant Schibsted is the main investor. “We are convinced that Schibsted will be able to contribute to […]
3 representatives from the region at the Startup World Cup
There are definitely a bunch of startup competitions around. Besides the Global Startup Awards (where the Nordic Startup Awards regional winners where just announced), VentureCup (which is held both in Denmark and Sweden), there is also the Startup World Cup, organized by the Silicon Vikings in the Nordics. This week the Swedish session was held, […]